Political Wire (via Scripting News): "In an interview with Time magazine, President Bush declared the war in Iraq a 'catastrophic success.' Sen. John Edwards responds in the Washington Post: 'I, like most Americans, have no idea what that means.'"

Wired article I ran across, noting some nice Mozilla Firefox extensions. The follow-up article has some other great ones. I personally can recommend AdBlock and All-in-one gestures for a far better browsing experience :)

I still think people _want_ to use the whole internet on their portable device [at least I do, but I'm geek] and I still think people should finally realize their websites aren't only for people surfing with ultra fast computers featuring screens with resolutions of 1024x768 and higher.

OK, for all people still stuck with windows, here goes some good list to keep your computer a bit safer than normal. For people who really care, I can recommend livecd's [handy for when a windows install is really screwed up] and GNU/Linux.

What use does anyone have for a crippled version of windows [mind: not lightened by removing such ish like mediaplayer, ie or pinball], which features the following gems: "limited to lower resolutions" and "limit users to running three programs concurrently." It will also offer "limited networking capabilities." Sounds like windows 3.11 to me :/

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Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan's technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this.

Secretary to composer György Ligeti: “He is creative and, because of this, totally overworked. Therefore, the very reason you wish to study his creative process is also the reason why he (unfortunately) does not have time to help you in this study.

PayPal enjoys a remarkable amount of linguistic pluralism in its programming culture. In addition to the long-standing popularity of C++ and Java, an increasing number of teams are choosing JavaScript and Scala, and Braintree‘s acquisition has introduced a sophisticated Ruby community.

In the year since the vanishing of MH370, I appeared on CNN more than 50 times, watched my spouse’s eyes glaze over at dinner, and fell in with a group of borderline-obsessive amateur aviation sleuths. A million theories bloomed, including my own.

Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: there’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern web.

This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don’t entirely recall, I’ve become a product manager on WeChat, a popular messaging app in China.

The human eye is optimised to have good colour vision at day and high sensitivity at night. But until recently it seemed as if the cells in the retina were wired the wrong way round, with light travelling through a mass of neurons before it reaches the light-detecting rod and cone cells.

Where a fictional spacecraft has the luxury of having its design dictated by style, real spacecraft are constrained by budget, tradeoffs, and practicality. Every feature of the ISS can be explained by those words.

I’m just going to come out and say it: This is the most ubiquitous ugly object in America. Sure, our nation is obsessed with miltary-sized automobiles for personal use, backyard Bigfoot statues, and chicken nuggets— and all those things are grotesque and common.

They lurk, unnoticed in the great halls of engineering that are the office strips along Highway 101. “Programmers” not programmers, people who have cheated, stolen, and lied their way through engineering careers without anyone realizing they can’t code.